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1879–1955
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a Jewish German theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and to Atomic Theory.
Also known as: Albert einstein, Einstein, Einstein's razor, Einstein, Albert, God doesn't play dice
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Statement on the occasion of Gandhi's 70th birthday (1939)
Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity.
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.
Why Socialism? (1949)
How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology?
The dependence of the individual upon society is a fact of nature which cannot be abolished.
Why Socialism? (1949)
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes.
Why Socialism? (1949)
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
The Evolution of Physics (1938)
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